MOTHER MAY WE?

Happy Mother's Day to all!

If you still need a place to take Mom for lunch or brunch or dinner, check the May issue of Phoenix Magazine...

...for my "Four Corners" column with some suggestions. From Phoenix Magazine online, you can check out my reviews of the Childsplay production of Schoolhouse Rock Live! at the Herberger, and of Zhang Yimou's remarkable movie Shadow.

THE CLAY'S THE THING

Check out my review, online at Phoenix Magazine, of And in This Corner: Cassius Clay...

...a co-production of Black Theatre Troupe and Childsplay. Note how I work into it the fact that I once met Muhammad Ali, mostly just because I vainly wanted to mention it. A fuller account of that brief meeting may be read here.

Also check out my review of Peter Jackson's haunting, often horrifying WWI documentary They Shall Not Grow Old.

RIP to the great Dick Miller, passed on at 90. Rest well, Walter Paisley.